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...Haven, Conn., Feb. 8. -- S. A. Pumpelly, Yale 1917, started the Junior Prom. tonight at 9.35, when he led off the grand march with Miss Anne Wood. The Armory was decorated in black and white with the university crew shell hanging above the centre of the hall. Supper and intermission came at 1 o'clock, after the twelfth dance. The lighting of several of the dances by spotlights from the balconies produced a novel effect. The festivities of Prom. week ended at 5 o'clock when the end of the dance order was reached...
...Yale Junior "Prom," which will be held in the Second Regiment Armory at New Haven this evening, will be the closing event of two days of festivities. Yesterday was marked by the junior and sophomore class teas and in the evening the annual production of the Dramatic Club and a concert by the Glee, Mandolin, and Banjo Clubs...
...acute. Only fifty men have applied for tickets as against over two hundred last year. It invariably requires a great deal of explanation and argument to convince Juniors that the Union is the only possible place in which to hold the dance; and even then the importance of the "prom,"--the first of two all-class social events in the four college years,--does not always impress them...
...Junior "proms" at Harvard lasted an entire week and entailed a complete suspension of studies for that period, as they do at some colleges, men would not have to be "urged" to attend. The consequent revolution in the usual course of life, the abnormal excitement, would carry men off their feet, and they would flock to the dance. But the University system is saner,--also less expensive. And the term "Junior prom" still has a wondrous thrilling appeal to the other...
...Hasty Pudding Club will give a tea for the Junior class at the club-house on Holyoke street on Friday afternoon from 3.30 to 5.30 o'clock. Its object is primarily to aid in acquainting guests of the class before the Prom., and it is hoped that much of the introducing at the Union will thereby be done away with. There will be dancing and tea throughout the afternoon. To make the affair best serve its purpose, all Juniors should make a special effort to attend. Tickets at $1.00 each will be sold at the door...